Romney's New Tan: Makeup Artist to Blame

Gawker was the first to notice that Mitt "It would be helpful to be Latino" Romney looked a little bit on the unnaturally dark-orange side during his Univision appearnce earlier this week. We really wanted to believe that it was just the lighting, as opposed to something that came from a bottle and/or what some speculated was an attempt to better connect with the station's Hispanic audience.

On Friday, Univision explained that what was actually to blame was not an attempt at cultural connection but an overdose of MAC Studio Fix powder and foundation by a (visually impaired?) makeup artist on staff. From the New York Daily News:

A makeup artist apparently went at the candidate with a heavy hand -- prompting some speculation in the liberal blogosphere that the Republican had applied some self-tanner before the event on Hispanic issues.